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Series VI. General Subjects, 1966-2013. 4.71 Linear feet

Scope and Contents

The series includes a broad range of subject matter related to John Zuccotti and his
public service, professional career, and other interests. Much of the series includes
publications or other forms of reports on the topics of economic development, housing,
zoning, planning, and transportation. These touch both general strategies or proposals
for action in New York City and more specific initiatives and locales, notably in
lower Manhattan.

Several files include material closely related to Zuccotti. These include documents
concerning Material Systems Corporation, for which Zuccotti served as a Director,
and its business of manufacturing low-cost factory-produced housing for HUD (early
1970s); a chronology of New York's fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s; labor-management
issues from the period during which Zuccotti served as an Impartial Arbitrator (1980s);
some documents from the financial struggles of Olympia & York (early 1990s); and emails
and other documents concerning Brookfield's response to the Occupy Wall Street protest
in Zuccotti Park (2011). The container list includes detailed reference to the specific
subjects, reports, and other material in this highly varied series.

Arrangement

The series is organized by subject matter in roughly chronological order.

Container 1

Container 2

Title

Date

Box: 16

The Lower Manhattan Plan. New York City Capital Project ES-1. Oversize

Scope and Contents

Report prepared for the New York City Planning Commission by architects and planners
Wallace, McHarg, Roberts, and Todd; architects and planners Whittlesey, Conklin and
Rossant; and transportation & planning consultants Alan M. Voorhees & Associates.

1966 June 1

Box: 10

Folder : 10

Draft Report: "Federal Programs and the Development of Lysander: A Report Submitted
to the Syracuse University Research Corporation Policy Institute"

Scope and Contents

Includes a draft co-authored by Zuccotti and James D. Carroll, apparently in connection
with work for the National Corporation for Housing Partnership.

1969 April 25

Box: 10

Folder : 11

Memorandum re: Tufo & Zuccotti New York Office Design Administration

1969 December 26

Box: 10

Folder : 12

Lincoln Square: Community Action Planning Program

Scope and Contents

Includes the report issued by Lincoln Square Community Council and the New York City
Department of City Planning.

1970?

Box: 10

Folder : 13

Land Banking: Public Policy Alternatives and Dilemmas

Scope and Contents

Includes draft report/working paper 112-28 by Sylvan Kamm, issued by The Urban Institute.

1970 December 8

Box: 10

Folder : 14-15

U.S. House of Representatives Panels on Housing (2 folders)

Scope and Contents

Includes preliminary summaries of three study panels held in late 1970 by the Subcommittee
on Housing of the House Committee on Banking and Currency; the full remarks, "The
Goals of Housing Subsidy Programs," by one of the panelists, Morton L. Isler; the
final report and recommendations issued by the committee in June 1971 under the title
"Housing and the Urban Environment," and two copies of Part II of the published versions
of the panels' papers (Part I not in the collection).

1970-1971

Box: 10

Folder : 16-18

Material Systems Corporation (3 folders)

Scope and Contents

Material Systems Corporation (MSC) developed and manufactured low cost factory produced
homes, garden apartments and townhouses. A primary part of its business was in connection
with HUD's experimental housing program, Operation Breakthrough. Zuccotti was on the
company's Board of Directors. The documents include a draft "Introduction" to the
company with product descriptions, organizational information, financial data, etc.
(1972); a preliminary prospectus for a public stock offering (1972); a proposal for
the company to develop low cost housing in Mexico, with related assessments about
foreign expansion; and the Board minutes of 21 March 1973 concerning the company's
refinancing.

1970-1973

Box: 16

Planning for Jobs. Oversize

Scope and Contents

Includes the New York City Planning Commission's supplement to "Plan for New York
City."

1971 March

Box: 10

Folder : 19

Joint Venture with Walker & Dunlop

Scope and Contents

Includes documents related to the possibility of the firms Tufo, Johnson and Zuccotti
and Walker & Dunlop forming a development company specializing in FHA programs. In
addition to cost benefit and other analyses of the organization, there are some documents
related to then active projects (Skytower Apartments in Washington, DC; Mall View
Apartments in Frederick and Leafy House Apartments in Silver Spring, Maryland; Winchester
Gardens in Winchester, Virginia; and others not specified by name).

1971-1972

Box: 10

Folder : 20

City Planning Commission

Scope and Contents

Includes a few documents related to Zuccotti's term on the Commission: a letter supporting
Zuccotti's vote in favor of low rent housing in Battery Park City; Report of Investigation Concerning Forest Hills Low-Income Housing Project by Mario Cuomo; reprint of Roger Starr's "The Lesson of Forest Hills"; the report
of Citizens Housing & Planning Council's Committee on City-Aided Mitchell-Lama Housing;
pages 2-49 of a task force report concerning housing; and a letter from Two Trees
describing their proposal to co-op Park Terrace Gardens (1973).

1972-1973

Box: 10

Folder : 21

"The Group"

Scope and Contents

Includes documents related to "The Group" comprised of various individuals, including
Zuccotti and S.F. Boden of the Association for Middle Income Housing, that formed
to consider solutions to housing problems in New York City.

1973

Box: 11

Folder : 1-4

Fiscal Crisis Chronology (4 folders)

Scope and Contents

Includes a "Chronology of Important Disclosures Concerning City of N.Y.'s Fiscal
Conditions," 1974-75, with copies of press releases and other related documents; chronologies
covering 1974-1981 concerning various aspects of the crisis, prepared by Program Planners,
Inc.; and various clippings.

1974-1981

Box: 11

Folder : 5

"Reports of the Department of City Planning and Letters of Response"

Scope and Contents

Includes the content of a binder: covers (only) of various city reports and copies
of letters from individuals or organizations expressing appreciation of the report.

1976-1977

Box: 11

Folder : 6-9

Economic Development Corporation (4 folders)

Scope and Contents

Includes a position description for Deputy Mayor for Economic Development; copies
of memos from Deputy Mayor Osborn Elliott to Mayor Beame concerning economic recovery;
a draft prospectus and a proposal for an Economic Development Corporation, and various
recovery concepts; the report Economic Recovery: New York City's Program for 1977-1981; an economic recovery progress report as of October 1977; a draft analysis of the
PBA's annuity deferral; a copy of the Neighborhood Strategy Areas: A Guidebook for Local Government; and some of Zuccotti's speeches and testimony from 1973-1975.

1973-1977

Box: 11

Folder : 10

Economic Recovery Related Memos

Scope and Contents

Includes a fact sheet prepared for Zuccotti on New York's tax abatement and building
incentive programs; a memo prepared for Mayor Beame on the President's National Energy
Plan; and memos on the city's economic development legislative package.

1977

Box: 11

Folder : 11

Planning Reports

Scope and Contents

Includes three reports: Cooperative Community Planning (June 1977) and A New Zoning for New York City (July 1977), both issued by the City Planning Commission, and A New Partnership to Conserve America's Communities: A Status Report on the President's
Urban Policy" (June 1978), issued by the White House.

1977-1978

Box: 11

Folder : 12

Eve's Rights: A Guide to the Rights of Women in New York State

Scope and Contents

Booklet prepared by Eve Cary for the New York Civil Liberties Union

1977

Box: 11

Folder : 13

South Bronx Redevelopment

Scope and Contents

Includes an unattributed preliminary draft of "Proposal for the South Bronx" (11 April
1978) and a memo "analyzing comparative performance capacities of alternative implementation
systems proposed for the South Bronx" issued by the South Bronx Development Office
(August 1980).

1978, 1980

Box: 11

Folder : 14-15

West Side Highway Project: Final Environmental Impact Statement and Section 6 of the Final Environmental Impact Statement: Comments and Responses on the
Draft Environmental Impact Statement (2 folders)

Scope and Contents

Includes portions of Volume II submitted by the Harlem Urban Development Corporation;
these include the report "Commercial Development Impact on 125th Street, Harlem, New
York" (1977) prepared by Jerome Michael & Associates; site appraisals; and "Harlem
Two Year Development Plan: Summary" (1977).

1977, 1979

Box: 11

Folder : 17-18

Economic Development Reports (2 folders)

Scope and Contents

Includes Agenda for Economic Development issued by Mayor Beame's Policy Committee (1975); the proceedings of the institute
sponsored by the New York City Council on Economic Education (25 April 1979), inscribed
by participant Albert Alexander to Robert F. Wagner, Jr.; Regional and Economic Development Strategies for the 1980s (May 1979), issued by the Port Authority of NY & NJ's Committee on the Future; and
Report on Economic Conditions in New York City"] (15 September 1979).

1975-1979

Box: 11

Folder : 19-20

Economic Development Advisory Council (2 folders)

Scope and Contents

Includes documents related to Zuccotti's participation on Governor Hugh Carey's Advisory
Committee (1980): copy of the final report submitted to Carey over Felix Rohatyn's
signature on behalf of the Committee, the Regional Plan Association's favorable response
and a related 1980 paper "Manhattan's Future" from the RPA, minutes of the Committee's
meeting of 9 April 1980 and Rohatyn's summary and action points from the meeting,
and three reports (1976) from the Business/Labor Working Group headed by David Rockefeller
of Chase Manhattan Bank and Harry Van Arsdale of the Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO.

1976-1980

Box: 11

Folder : 21

"Midtown Development Project" Report

Scope and Contents

Includes the draft report (June 1980) issued by the Department of City Planning, and
the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects' comments on it (10 March
1981).

1980-1981

Box: 11

Folder : 22

The Future of the World Trade Center

Scope and Contents

Includes the report to Governor Hugh L. Carey of the World Trade Task Force, formed
by Carey and chaired by Zuccotti.

1981 April

Box: 11

Folder : 23

New York City Procedural Guides

Scope and Contents

Includes three booklets: New York City Tax Guide (1982), issued by the Department of Finance; Rules of Procedure (1983), issued by the Board of Standards and Appeals; and Zoning Handbook: A Guide to New York City's Zoning Resolution (1990).

1982-1983, 1990

Box: 12

Folder : 1

City Planning for Buildings

Scope and Contents

Includes two publications: Lofts: Balancing the Equities (June 1983), issued by the City Planning Commission, and The Report of the Mayor's [Koch] Blue Ribbon Panel on Building Plan Examination and
Review (1985?).

1983-1985?

Box: 12

Folder : 2

Theater District Program

Scope and Contents

Includes two copies of the proposed project description prepared for the Shubert,
Nederlander and Jujamcyn Organizations by Cooper, Eckstut Associates.

1983

Box: 12

Folder : 3

Diaries of Mario M. Cuomo: The Campaign for Governor

Scope and Contents

Includes the booklet published by Random House as a "special limited edition of excerpts
for the friends of Governor Cuomo and Random House."

1984

Box: 12

Folder : 4

Speeches by Robert Wood

Scope and Contents

Includes Wood's "Black Leadership Styles: What's Best for the Eighties?" (1984), "The
Great Society in 1984: Relic or Reality?" (1984), "A Profession [Human Services] in
Double Jeopardy" (1985), "Lifting the Siege" (1985), "Mayor Richard Lee [of New Haven,
Conn.]: A National Vantage" (1986), "Present Before the Creation [of the Great Society
and HUD]: Lessons from the Paleozoic Age of Urban Affairs" (1990), an informal recollection
by Wood on "How History Should Remember President Johnson" (1994), and Philip Brownstein's
recollections of how HUD's Austin Oaks housing project came to be (1994). Zuccotti
is mentioned in the last item, which was forwarded to him by Wood for comment.

1984-1986, 1990, 1994

Box: 12

Folder : 5

Labor/Management Relations (Folder 1 of 6)

Scope and Contents

Includes the Reports to the Legislature for NYS-OER/CSEA's Joint Labor-Management
Committee on Work Environment and Productivity, NYS-OER/Council 82 AFSCME's Joint
Labor-Management Committee on Quality of Work Life, and NYS-OER/PDQ's Joint Labor-Management
Committee on Professional Development and Quality of Working Life (1982); the New
York State Committee on the Work Environment and Productivity Progress Report for
1979-1982; program and relalted documents for the First Annual Conference on New York
City Public Transit (12 December 1982); and clippings and other documents related
to labor relations and programs.

1981-1982

Box: 12

Folder : 6

Labor/Management Relations (Folder 2 of 6)

Scope and Contents

Includes the agreement between the New York City Transit Authority and Subway-Surface
Supervisors Association (August 1982) and "An Outline of Procedure Under Arbitration
Law in New York" (1984).

1982, 1984

Box: 12

Folder : 7

Labor/Management Relations (Folder 3 of 6)

Scope and Contents

Includes Zuccotti's remarks and documents related to the Subway-Surface Supervisors
Association Stewards Seminar of 1983 and 1985.

1983, 1985

Box: 12

Folder : 8

Labor/Management Relations (Folder 4 of 6)

Scope and Contents

Includes various arbitrated matters between transit authorities and the Transport
Workers Union Local 100. Also includes the handbook of "Policy Instruction: Drugs
and Controlled Substances" for the transit authorities.

1989-1989

Box: 12

Folder : 9

Labor/Management Relations (Folder 5 of 6)

Scope and Contents

Includes the "Agreement between New York City Transit Authority, Manhattan and Bronx
Surface Transit Operating Authority, and Transport Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO,
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 100, AFL-CIO."

1985 April 1

Box: 12

Folder : 10

Labor/Management Relations (Folder 6 of 6)

Scope and Contents

Includes the "Agreement between New York City Transit Authority, Manhattan and Bronx
Surface Transit Operating Authority, and Transport Workers Union of America, AFL-CIO,
Transport Workers Union of America, Local 100, AFL-CIO."

1988 April 1

Box: 12

Folder : 11

"Monthly Report on Key New York City Economic Indicators"

Scope and Contents

Includes the report with narrative and statistics prepared by Program Planners, Inc.,
with a memo summarizing the report for Zuccotti.

1986 November

Box: 12

Folder : 12

"Real Estate Investment Proposal: Crescent Beach at Arverne"

Scope and Contents

Includes the informational brochure provided to potential investors by Starrett Housing
Corporation.

1986 January

Box: 12

Folder : 13

"Agreement of Lease among New York State Urban Development Corporation and Roosevelt
Island Associates and Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation" for Northtown Phase
II

1986 August 4

Box: 12

Folder : 14

Memorandum to John Zuccotti re: Bond Hotel

Scope and Contents

Concerns a legal analysis of whether, in a particular circumstance, an occupied single
room occupancy (SRO) dwelling could be demolished.

1986 July 31

Box: 12

Folder : 15

Citizens Commission on AIDS

Scope and Contents

Zuccotti co-chaired the Commission. Includes the agenda for the Commission's first
meeting (22 September 1987); draft workplace principles (1988); the final report AIDS: Is There a Will to Meet the Challenge? (February 1991); a later publication, Orphans of the HIV Epidemic: Unmet Needs in Six U.S. Cities, co-authored by the Commission's former Executive Director, Carol Levine; and some
reference material.

1987-1994

Box: 12

Folder : 16

Toward a Comprehensive Policy on Homelessness

Scope and Contents

This is the report to Mayor Edward I. Koch of his Advisory Task Force on the Homeless,
of which Zuccotti was a member.

1987 February 24

Box: 13

Folder : 1

Merger with Brown & Wood

Scope and Contents

Includes letters of congratulations and clippings concerning Tufo & Zuccotti's merger
with Brown, Wood, Ivey, Mitchell & Petty to form the firm Brown & Wood. Also includes
a publicity brochure for Brown & Wood from the late 1980s, with Zuccotti pictured.

1986-1987?

Box: 13

Folder : 2

New York Ascendant: The Report of the Commission on the Year 2000

1987 June

Box: 13

Folder : 3

Midtown Development Review

Scope and Contents

Report issued by the Department of City Planning.

1987 July

Box: 13

Folder : 4-6

Regional Mobility Conference (3 folders)

Scope and Contents

Zuccotti led the workshop "Implementing Mobility Improvements" at this conference
organized by the Bi-State Transportation Forum (13 December 1988). Includes program,
outline for Zuccotti's workshop, pre-conference papers and other preparatory material
(1988) and the post-conference Summary and a follow-on report "Regional Transportation:
Current Conditions and Future Prospects: An Interagency Assessment" (1989). The file
also holds the report Regional Recovery: The Business of the Eighties (1979), issued by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey's Committee on the
Future.

1979, 1988-1989

Box: 13

Folder : 7

The Role of Amenities in the Land Use Process

Scope and Contents

Includes the report by a special committee of the Association of the Bar of the City
of New York and the related press release.

1988

Box: 13

Folder : 8

New York City: The Challenge Ahead. 50th Anniversary of the City Planning Commission, Conference Proceedings

1988 November 29

Box: 13

Folder : 9-12

Olympia & York (4 folders)

Scope and Contents

Includes documents from 1988-1989 when O & Y was a client of Zuccotti's while he was
at Brown & Wood, and from 1990 forward when he led O & Y. The documents principally
concern tax assessment decreases on O & Y's properties and the resulting press coverage
of the matter (1988) and O & Y's financial difficulties in the early 1990s. Most of
the latter are press clippings. Other documents include a briefing note for Zuccotti
prior to his meeting with Mayor David Dinkins in July 1991; a photograph of Dinkins,
Zuccotti and others, signed by Dinkins, at an O & Y project unveiling (January 1990);
a photograph of Zuccotti with Paul Reichmann; a draft of a resignation letter from
O & Y for Zuccotti, not used (1992); a copy of Reichmann's formal resignation from
O & Y (1993); and marketing material for outsourced administrative services from Automated
Property Administration (1996).

1987-1996

Box: 13

Folder : 13

Managerial Review Commission

Scope and Contents

Includes two versions of the Commission's report to Mayor Dinkins (July/September
1991 and December 1991); an "Interim Report on New York City's Economy, Office Space
Market and Fiscal Conditions" (8 March 1991), prepared by Program Planners, Inc.;
and various documents found within the Program Planners publication, including an
agenda for the Commission's 10 April 1991 meeting, notes on New York's continuing
fiscal problem, property tax analysis by the Real Estate Board of New York, and other
documents.

1991

Box: 13

Folder : 15-16

New York City Commission on the Homeless (2 folders)

Scope and Contents

Zuccotti was a member of the Commission, chaired by Andrew M. Cuomo. Includes two
documents: transcript of the Commission's public hearing held on 14 January 1992 and
the final report The Way Home: A New Direction in Social Policy (February 1992).

1992

Box: 13

Folder : 17

Shaping the City's Future

Scope and Contents

New York City's planning and zoning report, issued by the Planning Commission, for
public discussion.

1993

Box: 13

Folder : 18

Lower Manhattan Plans

Scope and Contents

Includes copies of the booklet Plan for Lower Manhattan issued by the Department of City Planning (1993) and a presentation "A Plan for the
Revitalization of Lower Manhattan" prepared by the Lower Manhattan Task Force (15
December 1994).

1993-1994

Box: 13

Folder : 19-20

Alliance for Downtown New York (2 folders)

Scope and Contents

Includes two reports to the Alliance: one prepared by Hamilton, Rabinovitz & Alschuler
concerning the residential market, and one prepared by Penn + Schoen Associates on
a survey of public opinion.

1995-1996

Box: 13

Folder : 21

Real Property Tax Fact Book

Scope and Contents

First edition of publication by The Real Estate Board of New York.

1996

Box: 13

Folder : 22

"Abraham D. Beame: A New York Story"

Scope and Contents

2001 La Guardia and Wagner Archives Calendar. Includes biographical notes and images
from Beame's life. Zuccotti appears in one image, at June.

Scope and Contents

Includes the preliminary recommendations for charter revision from the staff to the
Commission for both 27 July 1999 and 27 July 2001.

1999, 2001

Box: 14

Folder : 4

Columbia University

Scope and Contents

Includes background material for the Executive Committee meeting of 7 April 2003,
including a schematic of Manhattanville showing Columbia's then-current and anticipated
ownership, and architectural plans by Polshek Partnershipo showing the relation of
Columbia's southeast site to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

2002-2003

Box: 14

Folder : 5

Lower Manhattan Transportation

Scope and Contents

Includes Lower Manhattan Transportation Strategies, co-published by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, Port Authority, and
others. Also includes the Real Estate Board of New York's paper "Zoning and Manufacturing:
A Balanced Approach to New York City's Growth"; a flier protesting a proposed West
Street Tunnel; a letter from Community Board No. 1 concerning a proposed bridge along
Vesey Street; a fact sheet concerning a feasibility study for the extension of Route
9A bypass tunnel to Albany Street; documents concerning using Liberty Bonds for downtown
projects.

2003

Box: 14

Folder : 6

Lower Manhattan Development Corporation: Progress Report, 2001-2004

2005?

Box: 14

Folder : 7

Balanced Housing for a Smart Region: Policies for Addressing the Housing Problems
of the New York Metropolitan Region

Scope and Contents

Includes the report published by Citizens Housing & Planning Council and the Regional
Plan Association, the related press release, and notes on high impact strategies for
housing for working families from American Property Financing/Wachovia Bank.

2006

Box: 14

Folder : 8

Growth or Gridlock? The Economic Case for Traffic Relief and Transit Improvement for
a Greater New York

Scope and Contents

Co-chaired by Dan Carp, Ken Chenault, and Felix Rohatyn; Zuccotti was a member.

2006 December 15

Box: 14

Folder : 11

Manhattan West Side Development

Scope and Contents

Includes a Brookfield Properties presentation "Eastern and Western Rail Yards" (2007
March 8) and an unattributed and undated presentation "Recent/Current Development:
Gansevoort Market and Far West Chelsea." (These were found inside the PlanNYC brochure
above.)

2007

Box: 14

Folder : 12

World Trade Center Memorial Foundation

Scope and Contents

Primarily includes documents concerning a fundraising breakfast for the Foundation
at Gracie Mansion attended by representatives of the construction/real estate sector.
Also includes Zuccotti's talking points for the Foundation's Board meeting of 25 January
2007.

2007

Box: 14

Folder : 13

Economic Challenges

Scope and Contents

Includes Reviving the City of Aspiration: A Study of the Challenges Facing New York City's
Middle Class, published by the Center for an Urban Future, and the results of a survey of attendees
at a Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) conference.

2009

Box: 14

Folder : 14

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Scope and Contents

Includes Deborah Pope's presentation to the Foundation board on 14 September 2010
about Shangri-La (Hawaii) and the catalogue Extraordinary Vision: Doris Duke and the Newport [Rhode Island] Restoration Foundation.

2010-2011

Box: 15

Folder : 1

PATH Extension to Newark Liberty Airport

Scope and Contents

Includes documents, including kick-off meeting presentation and preliminary findings,
related to the Alliance for Downtown New York's engagement of the Regional Plan Association
to perform a study for a one-seat ride from the World Trade Center to Newark Airport
in New Jersey (2011). The folder also holds the 1975 report of the Mayor's {Beame)
Policy Committee, Transportation: Policy and Programs.

1975, 2011

Box: 15

Folder : 2

How New York City Won the Olympics

Scope and Contents

Includes the report published by NYU's Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and
Management, with a transmittal letter to Zuccotti, and publicity items for the report.

2011

Box: 15

Folder : 3

Jim Gill's Book Party

Scope and Contents

Hosted by Zuccotti on 9 November 2011. Also includes Gill's remarks on receiving Fordham's
Lifetime Achievement Award (2009).

2009, 2011

Box: 15

Folder : 4

Program for the Dedication of "The Kneeling Fireman" Memorial in Front of the Midtown
Emigrant Bank Building

2011 September 22

Box: 15

Folder : 5

Zuccotti Park. Re-Opening

Scope and Contents

Includes press coverage of the re-opening of One Liberty Plaza and its renaming as
Zuccotti Park.

2006

Box: 15

Folder : 6-7

Zuccotti Park. Occupy Wall Street (2 folders)

Scope and Contents

Includes Brookfield emails, press coverage, complaints, and other documents related
to the protests/occupation on the plaza.

Related Materials at N-YHS

Scope and Contents

Includes various publicity material and proposals concerning the island in relation
to interesting Zuccotti as a member of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

2013

Box: 15

Folder : 10

Regional Plan Association/Madison Square Garden

Scope and Contents

Includes the RPA's letter to the City Planning Commission opposing Madison Square
Garden's request for an infinite special zoning permit to operate its arena above
Pennsylvania Station, Zuccotti's email in disagreement with the RPA's position, Paul
Selver's testimony on behalf of the Garden, and other documents.